https://github.com/Shinmera/documentation-utils.git
git clone 'https://github.com/Shinmera/documentation-utils.git'
(ql:quickload :documentation-utils)
This is a small library to help you with managing the docstrings for your library.
The central element is the define-docs macro. It takes a body of expressions to define the documentation. In the simplest form, this looks like so:
(docs:define-docs
(my-function "Some documentation"))
If you need a different type of documentation, or want to be explicit, prepend its type to the expression.
(docs:define-docs
(function my-function "Some documentation")
(variable *my-variable* "Something else"))
In order to make things look more homely, aliases exist that can be used instead:
(docs:define-docs
(defun my-function
"Some documentation")
(defvar *my-variable*
"Something else"))
Aliases exist for most of the def* expressions. Some expressions can take multiple arguments for the specifier, but the last in the expression is always the docstring:
(docs:define-docs
(defmethod foo :append ((num integer) other)
"stuff"))
You can also extend this system for your own documentation translators. If you need more complex behaviour than the default of (documentation specifier type), see define-documentation-translator. If you are defining a new documentation type, you should also add a documentation-test to ensure that check can verify that you actually did set a documentation.